Haha im glad someone else noticed the nods to MGS history throughout the video. In one of them one of the historical milestones is “Major Zero disappears of the face off the earth”
I believe Visioneering also built the Vixen 21 prototype if I recall when Bill Collins later started his own company. You should join the Delorean Fanatics group on Facebook. They would love to hear any stories you may have.
@Windrammer: Wow! Does your family still own Visioneering??? Finally I found 2nd person who can maybe connect a dot. Did your grandfather ever tell you "where" the stainless came from? My grandfather told me a story of the sorts when i was little, & he would've been the one who cold-rolled that specialty stainless used on the Delorean prototype!!!! There's whole backstory about why the Delorean was made with non-domestic Stainless steel.....he was cut off & blacklisted by his rivals & obscure doc. I saw.... I'm able to confirm this someday "if" this retired industry steel tycoon will tell me!
John Delorean should be looked apon as a aspiring individual who had great talent and a intoxicating personality. He is a example of what shere will power of a human being can accomplish. He's one of the legends "or car god...if you will" of automotive history.
I don't think he was an inherently bad person, none of us know exactly how things played out. But can any of us say we'd have done things any differently in an effort to realize our dreams?? We all can agree we'd do whatever was within our power to accomplish our goals..... And that's the stuff Legends are made from.
You are right, 100%, (thank you). It was free men with that spirit, that created our free enterprise system and the industrial revolution that basically got mankind out of the dirt. Things are backwards today, and the American population now sees the propaganda on how great it is to eat bugs. I am glad to see somebody who knows what a hero is, (and they do not come from the state). Thank you again. IMO, DeLorean and Tucker had the same problem. They thought it was fine to do business with government(s). They had a poor business philosophy, and that philosophy caught the nations free enterprise system on fire and burned it to the ground. For example, communism and our free enterprise system, the philosophies of them,---were never compatible. The results are in.
As a footnote. Arthur Anderson, the company that sued him for fraud, went on to represent Enron. AA execs barely escaped doing federal time for misrepresenting the value of Enron. They have been effectively wiped out by penalties and lawsuits.
@@keyser1884 Infighting, union disputes, poor management choices,---all stem from government interference. In fact, the entire failure of our free enterprise system is due to government interference, as the largest factor of the problem. Anything else can be fixed relativity quickly in a true free market, like the depression of 1920.
@@EarthSurferUSA You clearly have no idea of even basic economics. Here's just one problem of no regulation, back in classical Greek times, some guy cornered the market by buying all the olive presses and put the prices right up. So they invented a new word, Monopoly and had to do a rule to stop that, ever since then we've evolved and had to make more rules to make the market fair or people exploit others, or there is no safety or quality, because those are overheads, remember? so we actually tried that long ago and each time with each new innovation there are now problems and new people trying to corner markets or exploit others, so companies have to be broken up, like IBM, the MS and now people are talking about Amazon and Google. Save the silly fairy stories for your own mind and don't waste other people's time with them, eh?
Another great RCR Story as always. I feel another great episode would be the legend of Preston Tucker. Truly a great visionary that was ahead of his time.
Idk how long after yall look at the comments but i wanted to let yall at RCR know that i for one love these RCR stories and have watched each atleast 5 times. i am a dork and a history major hoping to somehow make a life out of automotive history so these are like gold mines for me and make my week whenever a new one gets uploaded lol.....im writing this rather than work on a term paper in true college spirit.
I will never stop loving the DMC-12. My grandfather bought one new and I fell in love that day. I have never managed to find one I could afford and now they are getting out of my price range.
This is meticulously researched and really well presented and even though I thought I knew the DeLorean story, I didn't know all of it. You don't give yourself enough credit, Roman
I'd like to add a few things that's not included. The DMC-12 was meant to carry a Citroen-developed Wankel rotary engine, but cancelled the project when it became prohibitively expensive (it was mean't to power all Citroens). The PRV unit was federalised for emissions and only produced 128hp in US-spec; testing in NIreland with a Euro-spec engine produced 160hp and 0-60 hit under 8 secs. (sources say 7.8). The car is basically a reskinned Lotus Esprit S2, they are much closer than cousins, more like siblings. Colin Chapman was implicated in the fraud part of the story, there was deemed to be enough evidence for imprisonment but he died before indictment.
The DeLorean is in no way a "reskinned" Lotus. DeLorean commissioned Lotus to design a platform, but didn't use it because it would have been too expensive, so they designed their own platform. Lotus never designed or built a rear engine car and never would have, their design was mid engine. That didn't stop DeLorean from putting Lotus badges on the early cars, until Lotus made them take them off. I was a mechanic at a DeLorean dealership back in the 80s and I can assure you that they were horrible cars, and every employee at the dealership would have agreed with me. John DeLorean was a con man.
John was a fantastic engineer and brilliant auto designer.!!! I was very lucky and met him in California and had lunch with him in Atherton. He loved Pontiac... RIP John
I like the subtle trolling of using a photo of the 1982 Bonneville, a/k/a the Worst Bonneville Ever, when discussing JZD's involvement in the development of the '57 Bonnie.
Can we all agree that the "sense of the meeting" (as the Quakers say) is that every narrated piece on the channel should include a vocal or printed credit acknowledging the identity of the Narrator. I swear I think this one was Stephen Furst (R.I.P.), who portrayed the character of Vir so brilliantly in (arguably) the best science fiction show in the history of television, Babylon 5. This vid was very well written - and very well narrated. No stumbling over mispronounced or misunderstood words here. And...my God, there is inflection in there! And it matches the meaning! But the piece leaves me sad. I learned to drive in my beloved Bugs, and my factory-red camper van (Why did they call you a "station wagon? I miss you...), that hauled us painfully out of the middle of the Sonoran Desert. I put hundreds of thousands of miles on my Volkswagens. Unfortunately, that includes the last one, a diesel Golf. Hearing the story on this vid at least gives me some reason for my last VW experiences. VW with the SOS. No ethics left in that company aaaaTALL. Onkel Adolf must be proud.
Loved it. Goo-jar-ee-oh. You put the eye in Italian pronunciation. All kidding aside, a lovely treatment of an important story with RCR charm (don’t-sue-me pics and video)
Outstanding research and story telling, Roman. Just a small tid-bit, the DMC-12, Giorgetto Giugiaro, the surname is also read as Gi in Giorgetto, so "Jioo-jah-ro". Love your work, man, can't wait for more stories.
My friend has an uncle with one of the gold plated DeLoreans. It's long since been in a museum. But it's still a pretty crazy thing to be able to claim.
My folks had a '73 Vega. The shifter was held onto the linkage by one bolt that would periodically come loose. So every so often you'd be driving and suddenly couldn't shift anymore so you'd have to stop the car, get out, crawl under the car, and hand-tighten the shifter connection in order to get home so you could use some tools to make it last a bit longer. Real quality machine there.
I love these. Thank you, Roman (Nick) for these truly captivating accounts of car history. They are beyond quality work. Please keep them coming if you can.
Gerrad Reynolds No, I mean Piëch. Grandson of Ferdinand Porsche and 10% owner of the Porsche holding company, he was once voted auto executive of the century. He worked motorsports at both Porsche and Audi, developed the 5 cylinder diesel for Benz and then headed to VW, with pet projects like the Phaeton and Veryon (he owns two), and LOTS of messy stuff, like a weird merger where Porsche tried to buy VW and Piëch got the CEOs of both fired.
siralanlordsugar No, I mean grandson. Piëch was born in Vienna, Austria, to Louise Piëch, (née Porsche) Ferdinand's daughter. Louise had some rather exceptional 911s over the years, too.
Absolutely amazing, as always. The Delorean is my attainable dream car, and the background story has always complicated that when I tell people as much. This is a great and neutral telling of the story and gets into more context than most others. Thanks.
Hey, For your next reveiw could you please do the 2000 Hyundai Tiburon? The shortly produced version with four headlights and coke bottle styling? It's a super overlooked car that attempted to compete with the Miata and Celica.
Damn Roman, you killed it! I can't help but absolutely adore this channel, but this particular segment has made me a fan for life. This is exactly the focus and story we needed, leaving out all the BTF heresay. Seriously, thanks for your keen investigative and narrative skills on this personal hero.
What a great story am glad that it was told. I Got to Meet Mr. DeLorean at the 1997 DMC Meet in Cleavland. What a great and humble man he was. It was an Honor.
Pre chevy delorean is a true role model who cared about family values and the value of hard work. I want to follow in his footsteps and become an automotive engineer
I would suggest a more accurate (dare I say - the MOST accurate) documentary possible? The movie is highly stylized, time compressed but in only a scarce few cases; fictional. Mr Tucker, Mr Bricklin and Mr DeLorean all share the same personality trait: They all reached for the stars. One might almost call it the Icarus Syndrome. heheh. I don't think any one of them was a "bad" person. Mr. Tucker never once tried to fraud anybody, neither did Bricklin and neither did Delorean. They all just got too close to the sun. Preston's grandson Mike Tucker is very active in the Tucker Community and would be a wealth of knowledge, pictures, history, etc.
Actually, with Tucker it was more political than anything. Keep in mind that many other auto companies helped Tucker get rolling - because he had so many older connections with the car companies! For instance, the steering wheels are pre-war Lincoln steering wheels that were actually DONATED to Tucker Corp. on the grounds that they only be provisionary and to be removed from the vehicles when Tucker could manufacture his own. Interior Door buttons were provided by Willys, tail lights provided by Dodge. With Tucker, it appears he royally pissed off Senator Homer Ferguson and possibly had enemies at the War Assets Commission.... among others. Homer Ferguson was the one who spear-headed the involvement of the S.E.C. into Tucker Corp's finances. But who really ruffled everybody's feathers was Henry J. Kaiser. He took 10-million GOVERNMENT/TAXPAYER dollars to come up with a revolutionary, economical, Front-wheel drive "peoples car" and he gave us the Henry J - which, didn't even come close to any of it's previously advertised specifications. The S.E.C. considered investigating Mr. Kaiser, however at the time, he was seen as a War Hero and "Too Big" to go after. Here comes Mr. Tucker with his private little company trying to build safety cars in Chicago. There's a famous quote that for the life of me, I cannot recall who it's attributed to, but it goes something like: "If he deviates one iota from anything he advertises, we're gonna get him!" Sinking Tucker Corporation was practically a witch hunt and was proven as such at the trial, what with Mr. Tucker (and everybody else involved) being acquitted of all charges. Sad fact is that in January 1950, Tucker Corporation still had 8 million dollars capital, AND they still had possession of the Factory! They could have, and briefly considered re-starting production on a small scale but it was Preston Tucker who decided it was simply not worth it, fearing his name was so tarnished by the court case. They didn't kill his car, or his company but they did succeed in breaking his heart.
Tesla can burn cash because they were successful, even after some hurdles. DMC was doomed to fail even before manufacturing the DMC-12 because of delays and shit
I appreciate this video infinitely more now that I know what you gave up to work on it, Nick. I'm glad that my stupid comment on Twitter ages ago put a smile on your face, and I hope that smile carries forward despite all.
While Biopics are great, I don't think there's enough story here to warrant a full-scale Hollywood Biopic. I'd rather see one on Janis Joplin, Jim Croce or a more accurate retelling of Buddy Holly's Story.
Alfred Neuman john Delorean: 1) was one of the youngest executives in the industry. 2) was one of the first examples of a celebrity businessman complete with dating actress and models. 3) was responsible for creating icons like the GTO and FIREBIRD. 4) was not happy with the success under another company's name - so he left to start his own company. 5) his company was failing so he attempted to save it by getting involved in drug trafficking! 6) was prosecuted for said trafficking - and successfully defended himself by acting as his own attorney! This guys story is so filled with interesting twists and turns that it sounds made up! I think there is a great BIG SHORT meets AVIATOR style film here.
Thank you for making one of the few accurate, fact-based DMC stories I've ever seen. Fantastic job. As an owner I get hit with every misinformed and stupid twist on this story you can imagine, it's nice to have someone tell the story straight for a change.
Suggestion: The GM/Saturn EV1 and its eventual recall (aka why I don't trust the automotive industry to make any progress whatsoever under its own accord, don't even get me started on hydrogen fuel cell cars). I know there's already a great documentary on the subject (Who Killed the Electric Car, if anyone's interested), but it would be interesting to see your take on it.
Jacob Wallace I second this notion. The EV1's story is a tragic one of betrayal from within, a car that GM had basically set up for failure from the start. And when it didn't fail like they wanted it to? They made it fail, murdered it in cold blood, because Big Oil had more pull than public opinion. It's definitely a story worth hearing with Roman's touch, I'd love to see that.
It's funny how two guys out of PA can make a better documentary than pretty much any tv channel out there
ingusmant English majors with social anxieties make great writers
Rick Sebak is from PA
I'm glad he doesn't overdo it with "dramatic" effects and whatnot, just lets the story speak for itself
ingusmant I couldn't agree more
I won't believe they are human until they come and talk with us little guys here.
in 1974.... "Peace Walker incident Occurred"
you have just reached the level of legend in my book now... well done
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Haha im glad someone else noticed the nods to MGS history throughout the video. In one of them one of the historical milestones is “Major Zero disappears of the face off the earth”
Suggestion: The story of SAAB
Magnus Buinevits Donut Media made an "Up to Speed" video on SAAB
Biohazard195 So did Top Gear, but I see that there is potential to do it better than either of those
I second this. SAAB got an unfair death at the hands of the evil "new gm".
GM saved Saab
@@MrJMS814 How did GM did save Saab? Thats like saying FCA saved Chrysler(btw, they didn't)
Still need an RCR about the war between Ford and Ferrari at the 24 Hours of LeMans
Angry Clown 1990 Yes, yes, 100% yes!
There's a somewhat detailed story about it on the Grand Tour.
iamstd2 and an even more lengthy and detailed treatment on Amazon that the Grand Tour used its footage from. “The 24 Hour War”.
Maybe one about the infamous 1955 Le Mans Disaster.
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My grandfather owned Visioneering, which was the company that built the Delorean prototype. Almost put him out of business too
I believe Visioneering also built the Vixen 21 prototype if I recall when Bill Collins later started his own company. You should join the Delorean Fanatics group on Facebook. They would love to hear any stories you may have.
"No guts no glory.". I am sure your Grandfather "lived" by that motto, and I am sure that mishap would not have changed his mind.
@Windrammer: Wow! Does your family still own Visioneering??? Finally I found 2nd person who can maybe connect a dot. Did your grandfather ever tell you "where" the stainless came from? My grandfather told me a story of the sorts when i was little, & he would've been the one who cold-rolled that specialty stainless used on the Delorean prototype!!!! There's whole backstory about why the Delorean was made with non-domestic Stainless steel.....he was cut off & blacklisted by his rivals & obscure doc. I saw.... I'm able to confirm this someday "if" this retired industry steel tycoon will tell me!
Don't think I missed those MGS3 references. You're pretty good, Roman
John Delorean should be looked apon as a aspiring individual who had great talent and a intoxicating personality. He is a example of what shere will power of a human being can accomplish. He's one of the legends "or car god...if you will" of automotive history.
I don't think he was an inherently bad person, none of us know exactly how things played out. But can any of us say we'd have done things any differently in an effort to realize our dreams?? We all can agree we'd do whatever was within our power to accomplish our goals..... And that's the stuff Legends are made from.
He’s also a classic Executive Sociopath.
@@mattkaustickomments As defined by the likes of karl marx. Be careful. Understand the premise of what you were told to think. :)
You are right, 100%, (thank you). It was free men with that spirit, that created our free enterprise system and the industrial revolution that basically got mankind out of the dirt. Things are backwards today, and the American population now sees the propaganda on how great it is to eat bugs. I am glad to see somebody who knows what a hero is, (and they do not come from the state). Thank you again.
IMO, DeLorean and Tucker had the same problem. They thought it was fine to do business with government(s). They had a poor business philosophy, and that philosophy caught the nations free enterprise system on fire and burned it to the ground. For example, communism and our free enterprise system, the philosophies of them,---were never compatible. The results are in.
As a footnote. Arthur Anderson, the company that sued him for fraud, went on to represent Enron. AA execs barely escaped doing federal time for misrepresenting the value of Enron. They have been effectively wiped out by penalties and lawsuits.
I want an alternative history movie involving John DeLorean saving the company by being a successful drug dealer.
Hell, I want a video game of that. Vice City meets a car manufacturing sim.
Automation II: the Cocaine Cartel Tycoon Game. I'd buy that.
Automation DLC
Breaking Back to the Future
kz1000ps that would be the greatest thing ever
I know how weird the story is... I'm just here to watch you tell it. Slowly, as I sip this moderately enjoyable Scotch.
God you sound like my boyfriend Jake XD
Your boyfriend, Jake, sounds like a moderately interesting chap.
Beer.....
You should give him a rusty trombone too
Civ V...
Please could you talk about the collapse of British Leyland
This would be great. Such a mess of infighting, union disputes, government interference and poor management choices.
30 part series there!
@@keyser1884 Infighting, union disputes, poor management choices,---all stem from government interference. In fact, the entire failure of our free enterprise system is due to government interference, as the largest factor of the problem. Anything else can be fixed relativity quickly in a true free market, like the depression of 1920.
@@EarthSurferUSA You clearly have no idea of even basic economics. Here's just one problem of no regulation, back in classical Greek times, some guy cornered the market by buying all the olive presses and put the prices right up. So they invented a new word, Monopoly and had to do a rule to stop that, ever since then we've evolved and had to make more rules to make the market fair or people exploit others, or there is no safety or quality, because those are overheads, remember? so we actually tried that long ago and each time with each new innovation there are now problems and new people trying to corner markets or exploit others, so companies have to be broken up, like IBM, the MS and now people are talking about Amazon and Google.
Save the silly fairy stories for your own mind and don't waste other people's time with them, eh?
@@EarthSurferUSA lol
Another great RCR Story as always. I feel another great episode would be the legend of Preston Tucker. Truly a great visionary that was ahead of his time.
YES RCR STORIES IS BACK OMFG
Nicholas Hillyer Happiness has returned to my life
Idk how long after yall look at the comments but i wanted to let yall at RCR know that i for one love these RCR stories and have watched each atleast 5 times. i am a dork and a history major hoping to somehow make a life out of automotive history so these are like gold mines for me and make my week whenever a new one gets uploaded lol.....im writing this rather than work on a term paper in true college spirit.
This guy's giving me the motivation to finish grad school and get another part of my cpa done with.
One on Smokey Yunick would be awesome. What a guy!
This is probably the ideal story for dry RCR wit.
Simply outstanding... I've seen docos, movies about Delorian, this surpasses them all, well done RCR.
I will never stop loving the DMC-12. My grandfather bought one new and I fell in love that day. I have never managed to find one I could afford and now they are getting out of my price range.
This is meticulously researched and really well presented and even though I thought I knew the DeLorean story, I didn't know all of it. You don't give yourself enough credit, Roman
Superb documentary, really enjoyed that.
I'd like to add a few things that's not included. The DMC-12 was meant to carry a Citroen-developed Wankel rotary engine, but cancelled the project when it became prohibitively expensive (it was mean't to power all Citroens). The PRV unit was federalised for emissions and only produced 128hp in US-spec; testing in NIreland with a Euro-spec engine produced 160hp and 0-60 hit under 8 secs. (sources say 7.8). The car is basically a reskinned Lotus Esprit S2, they are much closer than cousins, more like siblings. Colin Chapman was implicated in the fraud part of the story, there was deemed to be enough evidence for imprisonment but he died before indictment.
The DeLorean is in no way a "reskinned" Lotus. DeLorean commissioned Lotus to design a platform, but didn't use it because it would have been too expensive, so they designed their own platform. Lotus never designed or built a rear engine car and never would have, their design was mid engine. That didn't stop DeLorean from putting Lotus badges on the early cars, until Lotus made them take them off. I was a mechanic at a DeLorean dealership back in the 80s and I can assure you that they were horrible cars, and every employee at the dealership would have agreed with me. John DeLorean was a con man.
Colin Chapman was also the reason Number Six drove a Lotus in The Prisoner.
@@barryervin8536 What a load of tosh.
@@chrisp7214 Whatever you say. If you wish to continue believing in the delusional myth that the DeLorean was a good car, feel free.
Great Scott, Marty ... another DeLorean episode!
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John was a fantastic engineer and brilliant auto designer.!!! I was very lucky and met him in California and had lunch with him in Atherton. He loved Pontiac... RIP John
Give us a story about AMC next!
Thanks Roman, I enjoyed that. It's always an interesting story from whichever angle you look at it.
1 HOUR OF PURE RCR STORIES
THANK YOU
RCR Stories are my favorite RCR's!! Keep them coming please!!
This is my favorite content on RCR. Period.
I like the subtle trolling of using a photo of the 1982 Bonneville, a/k/a the Worst Bonneville Ever, when discussing JZD's involvement in the development of the '57 Bonnie.
Suggestions: Maybe something from the British motor industry. Colin Chapman, McLaren, Aston-Martin...
Group B rally next please! These are dope, Nick, I look forward to every one. Good job.
As a delorean dmc 12. Owner this was really well done Mr regular thank you Alex
Alex Brooks The Roman does these
2bit MarketAnarchist thank you I did not notice the voice. Good job Roman
Alex Brooks NP my dude
Getting my DeLorean ready for spring while listening to this.
Thank you, Roman. This is epic. See you at the New York show, maybe. Let's see this story get 100K+ views!
Can we all agree that the "sense of the meeting" (as the Quakers say) is that every narrated piece on the channel should include a vocal or printed credit acknowledging the identity of the Narrator. I swear I think this one was Stephen Furst (R.I.P.), who portrayed the character of Vir so brilliantly in (arguably) the best science fiction show in the history of television, Babylon 5. This vid was very well written - and very well narrated. No stumbling over mispronounced or misunderstood words here. And...my God, there is inflection in there! And it matches the meaning!
But the piece leaves me sad. I learned to drive in my beloved Bugs, and my factory-red camper van (Why did they call you a "station wagon? I miss you...), that hauled us painfully out of the middle of the Sonoran Desert. I put hundreds of thousands of miles on my Volkswagens. Unfortunately, that includes the last one, a diesel Golf. Hearing the story on this vid at least gives me some reason for my last VW experiences. VW with the
SOS. No ethics left in that company aaaaTALL. Onkel Adolf must be proud.
Loved it. Goo-jar-ee-oh. You put the eye in Italian pronunciation. All kidding aside, a lovely treatment of an important story with RCR charm (don’t-sue-me pics and video)
Outstanding research and story telling, Roman. Just a small tid-bit, the DMC-12, Giorgetto Giugiaro, the surname is also read as Gi in Giorgetto, so "Jioo-jah-ro". Love your work, man, can't wait for more stories.
Can you do one on Carroll Shelby?
There's a good idea! From Chicken Sauce to Turbo Dodges!
Major Zero. A MGS reference? Very coool.
My friend has an uncle with one of the gold plated DeLoreans. It's long since been in a museum. But it's still a pretty crazy thing to be able to claim.
All the Metal Gear Solid timeline mentions are fucking awesome
My folks had a '73 Vega. The shifter was held onto the linkage by one bolt that would periodically come loose. So every so often you'd be driving and suddenly couldn't shift anymore so you'd have to stop the car, get out, crawl under the car, and hand-tighten the shifter connection in order to get home so you could use some tools to make it last a bit longer. Real quality machine there.
That was a real ride. It had everything! Drugs, bankruptcy, a monorail. Good stuff, Roman! Thanks for sharing this.
I like this style of video, good to sit back and listen too.
Just watched the whole thing, what a great story mahk
I love these. Thank you, Roman (Nick) for these truly captivating accounts of car history. They are beyond quality work. Please keep them coming if you can.
Lovely as always. Bring a former DeLorean owner myself, nice to hear more of the story from other people. C:
So happy these are still a thing!
ps: do Ferdinand Piëch?
you mean porche?
Gerrad Reynolds No, I mean Piëch. Grandson of Ferdinand Porsche and 10% owner of the Porsche holding company, he was once voted auto executive of the century. He worked motorsports at both Porsche and Audi, developed the 5 cylinder diesel for Benz and then headed to VW, with pet projects like the Phaeton and Veryon (he owns two), and LOTS of messy stuff, like a weird merger where Porsche tried to buy VW and Piëch got the CEOs of both fired.
Ben Beauvais I'm with you on that.
siralanlordsugar No, I mean grandson. Piëch was born in Vienna, Austria, to Louise Piëch, (née Porsche) Ferdinand's daughter. Louise had some rather exceptional 911s over the years, too.
Absolutely amazing, as always. The Delorean is my attainable dream car, and the background story has always complicated that when I tell people as much. This is a great and neutral telling of the story and gets into more context than most others. Thanks.
We need the story of malcolm bricklin. He brought Subaru to the US, created his own car company, then brought the freakin Yugo.
Really starting to love this channel! All stuff of interest to me! Keep it up!
So good. Writing. Narration. Slide show. Length. Inflation adjustment on costs and salaries. Just great
Hey, For your next reveiw could you please do the 2000 Hyundai Tiburon? The shortly produced version with four headlights and coke bottle styling? It's a super overlooked car that attempted to compete with the Miata and Celica.
Damn Roman, you killed it! I can't help but absolutely adore this channel, but this particular segment has made me a fan for life. This is exactly the focus and story we needed, leaving out all the BTF heresay. Seriously, thanks for your keen investigative and narrative skills on this personal hero.
This is amazing... I love these episodes, you learn so much. Awesome story!
Is hard to get used to roman's voice but when u do is worth it
Outstanding! These are the best RCR videos by far, because the content is fascinating and the delivery is more diverse than Mr Regular's style
You guys are making car content that's entertaining enough for me to watch with my girlfriend, who barely cares about cars. Love it.
Your documentary’s are superb it’s what you do best.
Just watched a bunch of these, and wanted to say thank you. Thank you for taking the time to do the research and analysis for these. Thanks
He's was an amazingly talented man who succumbed to his vices.
What a great story am glad that it was told. I Got to Meet Mr. DeLorean at the 1997 DMC Meet in Cleavland. What a great and humble man he was. It was an Honor.
You should do Ford v. Firestone next
Sift Nick I second this idea. I still remember seeing all of the news stories about the recalls and safety issues
When lotus has to come in and make your product less of a hassle...
This is a treat! Good to have you guys back.
Pre chevy delorean is a true role model who cared about family values and the value of hard work. I want to follow in his footsteps and become an automotive engineer
Pretty damned insightful epilogue there, H-Canon man! You summed up the most valuable part of, “The Meaning of Life”! Excellent documentary sir!
So you've done DeLorean, is Preston Tucker next?
Todd Howard Good idea
Maybe a "The stuff not in the movie/what was wrong with the movie"
I would suggest a more accurate (dare I say - the MOST accurate) documentary possible? The movie is highly stylized, time compressed but in only a scarce few cases; fictional. Mr Tucker, Mr Bricklin and Mr DeLorean all share the same personality trait: They all reached for the stars. One might almost call it the Icarus Syndrome. heheh.
I don't think any one of them was a "bad" person. Mr. Tucker never once tried to fraud anybody, neither did Bricklin and neither did Delorean. They all just got too close to the sun.
Preston's grandson Mike Tucker is very active in the Tucker Community and would be a wealth of knowledge, pictures, history, etc.
Whoes laghing now
Actually, with Tucker it was more political than anything. Keep in mind that many other auto companies helped Tucker get rolling - because he had so many older connections with the car companies!
For instance, the steering wheels are pre-war Lincoln steering wheels that were actually DONATED to Tucker Corp. on the grounds that they only be provisionary and to be removed from the vehicles when Tucker could manufacture his own. Interior Door buttons were provided by Willys, tail lights provided by Dodge.
With Tucker, it appears he royally pissed off Senator Homer Ferguson and possibly had enemies at the War Assets Commission.... among others. Homer Ferguson was the one who spear-headed the involvement of the S.E.C. into Tucker Corp's finances.
But who really ruffled everybody's feathers was Henry J. Kaiser. He took 10-million GOVERNMENT/TAXPAYER dollars to come up with a revolutionary, economical, Front-wheel drive "peoples car" and he gave us the Henry J - which, didn't even come close to any of it's previously advertised specifications. The S.E.C. considered investigating Mr. Kaiser, however at the time, he was seen as a War Hero and "Too Big" to go after.
Here comes Mr. Tucker with his private little company trying to build safety cars in Chicago. There's a famous quote that for the life of me, I cannot recall who it's attributed to, but it goes something like:
"If he deviates one iota from anything he advertises, we're gonna get him!"
Sinking Tucker Corporation was practically a witch hunt and was proven as such at the trial, what with Mr. Tucker (and everybody else involved) being acquitted of all charges.
Sad fact is that in January 1950, Tucker Corporation still had 8 million dollars capital, AND they still had possession of the Factory! They could have, and briefly considered re-starting production on a small scale but it was Preston Tucker who decided it was simply not worth it, fearing his name was so tarnished by the court case. They didn't kill his car, or his company but they did succeed in breaking his heart.
Thank you for this!!!!!!
love RCR - keep it up guys.
This was awesome! I love listening to these and your podcasts when studying or doing homework.
I LOVE your narration style! Thanks for the education and entertainment!
If Monday car reviews are the yin of RCR, then RCR stories are the yang. One is stronger for having the other.
Amazing the same is happening today with the over hyped Tesla 3.
Only difference is DMC had to make profit, telsa is fine burning cash
Tesla can burn cash because they were successful, even after some hurdles. DMC was doomed to fail even before manufacturing the DMC-12 because of delays and shit
Suggestion: Story of Packard Motors
I appreciate this video infinitely more now that I know what you gave up to work on it, Nick. I'm glad that my stupid comment on Twitter ages ago put a smile on your face, and I hope that smile carries forward despite all.
There needs to be a big John Delorean biopic with someone like George Clooney.
While Biopics are great, I don't think there's enough story here to warrant a full-scale Hollywood Biopic.
I'd rather see one on Janis Joplin, Jim Croce or a more accurate retelling of Buddy Holly's Story.
Alfred Neuman john Delorean:
1) was one of the youngest executives in the industry.
2) was one of the first examples of a celebrity businessman complete with dating actress and models.
3) was responsible for creating icons like the GTO and FIREBIRD.
4) was not happy with the success under another company's name - so he left to start his own company.
5) his company was failing so he attempted to save it by getting involved in drug trafficking!
6) was prosecuted for said trafficking - and successfully defended himself by acting as his own attorney!
This guys story is so filled with interesting twists and turns that it sounds made up! I think there is a great BIG SHORT meets AVIATOR style film here.
"For Sale...Delorean DMC12, low mileage and only driven from time to time...when you call, ask for Doc"
This needs to be a movie, its just surreal
Honestly.... I'm mostly subscribed to RCR these days just for RCR Stories. Keep it up, Roman!
Mr. Roman, do a story about the origins of VW and/or Porsche, even though I know a lot of the history I'd be great if you do it in your style
KdF stole design from czechoslovak tatra...
Tatra sue KdF and in return Germany invade Czechoslovak
This how it started
The DMC-12 is still made to this very day in Humble, Texas. 🤠👍
Thank you for making one of the few accurate, fact-based DMC stories I've ever seen. Fantastic job. As an owner I get hit with every misinformed and stupid twist on this story you can imagine, it's nice to have someone tell the story straight for a change.
Great listen. I had no idea how accomplished DeLorean was before the DMC12. The Roman has found a calling in automotive story telling.
GREAT JOB ROMAN! I love these, keep it up, and dont doubt yourself. You're great at this. Thanks
This is such a cool channel. Thank you for what you guys do, there was obviously a lot of effort put into this video.
Mr regular: These centers were set up by a man named DIIICK BROOOWN
Brown?
DR BROWNS
NUDE-sen...
I second the story of SAAB. Love those cars
I saw one of these on the road near me just yesterday. I think it's the first time I've seen one being used outside of shows.
"Living the american dream." (Picture of Dusty Rhodes) good work sir.
Wonderful storytelling as always, Roman. Hasn't been an RCR Story I don't like yet, keep it up!
The Tommy Wiseau reference alone makes this a 5 star video
About time we got more RCR Stories from Roman. Can't wait for the next one.
I love these stories Roman. I watched all 67 mins while sipping on a nice Bourbon. I have a notoriously short attention span, so that's saying a lot!
Sorry to have only just discovered RegularCars. What an Industry Geek you are. Love this!
M/F-ing RCR Stories is BACK ! YES !
Suggestion: The GM/Saturn EV1 and its eventual recall (aka why I don't trust the automotive industry to make any progress whatsoever under its own accord, don't even get me started on hydrogen fuel cell cars). I know there's already a great documentary on the subject (Who Killed the Electric Car, if anyone's interested), but it would be interesting to see your take on it.
Jacob Wallace I second this notion. The EV1's story is a tragic one of betrayal from within, a car that GM had basically set up for failure from the start. And when it didn't fail like they wanted it to? They made it fail, murdered it in cold blood, because Big Oil had more pull than public opinion. It's definitely a story worth hearing with Roman's touch, I'd love to see that.
I want to know how the ev1 ended up with a gear selector I've only ever seen on a Toyota Soarer/Lexus SC.....so weird
I saw a documentary about this and how thousands were destroyed.
Thank you for the DeLorean Story. Powerful last sentence to live by and remember.
It feels good to see syd Barrett’s name
I like the shot of the Fiero interior in the story of the DeLorean. The Fiero was a lightweight realization of Delorean’s Banshee design.